restart & shutdown buttons disabled

Hi,I've been trying to enable restart and shutdown buttons in "Log out dialog" for almost 2 days - I've read many manuals and forum posts, but nothing really helps:I'm running Gentoo, xfce 4.8

I am in power group, I created files under /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (according to some forum post it should solve my problem...but it didn't)I am running dbus as daemon, and my ~/.xinitrc file contains

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

Here on Arch Linux I have:

- dbus running as a daemon- _no_ "dbus-launch" in .xinitrc- "exec ck-launch-session startxfce4"- and I used to have a "/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/alloweverything.conf" but it's apparently gone (like the contents of my 500GB HD, but I digress.) So no special rule.

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

I had seen this problem on xubuntu (11.04), and the suggested fix here did seem to work, though I recently re-installed that machine with debian testing; I did not encounter this issue since and do not have a ~/.xinitrc anymore.

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Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

xfcelav wrote:

The problem is Policykit in Debian. Use LightDM

This does solve all problems. I tried using slim before lightdm and had to reconfigure PolicyKit. Slim doesn't tell the system that a user is active, so you basically need to configure PolicyKit to allow all to do everything ... a major security hole. Installing LightDM does not have this issue, and is still super lightweight.

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

I've just installed a minimal Fedora 17 with Xfce 4.10 and I'm having the same problem.I have Consolekit installed but the restart/shutdown buttons are grayed out.I'm using startx. Is it possible to not install any DM?